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Socio-analytical Practices and Institutional Socio-clinic
Institutional analysis has developed as the practico-theoretical current of which socio-analytical intervention has long constituted the signal, accepted method. Today the operative modes of what can be called « institutional socio-clinic » have been diversified. institutional socio-clinic interacts with other methodological approaches, although the concepts of institution and implications remain at the center of its theoretical orientation.

The Analysis of Implications in Socio-analytical Practices : Those of the Analyst and/or Those of the Patient ?By re-examining the theoretical genesis of the concept of implication and how it is supported by the institutional counter-transfer it is possible to uncover the inherent conflictuality in its conceptual construction — how it relies on a dialectic of analytical expertise and the socio-political participation of all social agent/actors. The concept is unstable as it operationalizes in relation to the socio-political contexts and in their relation to the professionalization of their practioners.

Socioanalysis and Group Practices in Brazil : A Marriage of Heterogenes
Analysis of the interconnections between the French institutionalist movement — especially its socioanalytical current — and group practices can help clarify the process that has engendered, in Brazil, the constitution of a field known as that of works (or interventions) of (or in) institutional analysis. Institutional analysis is historically marked by hybridism. It is here that are found its conceptual foundations, coming from both the experiences of the French socioanalytical current and the latino-american work on groups, the operative groups in particular.

The Institution of Subjects : Towards the Transcendence of Dualism and Critique of the Influence of Neo-liberalism in the Social Sciences. The construction of a individual/institution dualism can be questioned by retracing the evolution of theories concerning institutions and the subject. By dismissing the necessary socio-symbolic operators and the constraints and limits inherent in the fabrication of subjects, legendary and psychoanalytical theories of lacanian orientation have subverted this antagonism and reduced it to often naive dimensions. Today, it is present in the social discourses of liberalism and individualism while it is ignored that the decline of institutions contributes to the crisis in the process of subjective construction, social disaffiliation and the rise of insignificance.

Institutionalization, Implication, Restitution : The Theorization of an Associative Practice
A theorization of institutionalization and implication can be presented in such a way as to transmit and communicate the results of practical experience in the scientific domain. The type of association allowed by the « Law of 1901 » is an institutionalized juridical form permitting an institutionalizing social creativity. Such new forms must emerge within a legal framework : this is institutionalization. The association is a living site for actors as well as observers. When the two roles are confused, the concept of implication allows greater apprehension of a complex social phenomenon. Resituating this ordering of practical experience in relation to the community of sociologists is a indispensable social and scientific act.

The Specter of the Death of the Author
The announcement of an author's death is a recurrent theme in literature and literary criticism. Such announcements can be studied in the work of Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet and Antoine Compagnon in terms of the failure of prophecy and the manifestos of self-dissolution within the framework of institutional analysis. The specter of death « decomposes » the unity of the social form of« author » and brings out the relations of force which constitute it.

Institutional Analysis and Socio-historical Research : What Compatibility ?
From its beginnings, institutional analysis has produced research involving an historical approach. In doing this, it anticipated the present development of a « social history » where theoretical frameworks from history and sociology are combined. Study of exemplary cases of such research reveals how institutional analysis can lend itself to social history.

To be Old or Not to Be
Interviews with people in their eighties and nineties reveal the two ideal-typical ways that people tend react to the ageing process. Either they recognize that they are « old » or they refuse to do so. These reactions correspond to different narrative identities which represent divergent ways of establishing the relation between the past and the present and projections into the future.

Time, Space and Body in Retirement : Some Paradoxes
Feminine ageing is a doubly devalued field of scientific study, but it raises more and more questions because of its paradoxical character. « Aged » women accumulate a certain nombre of handicaps that can become advantages. Analysis of the paradoxes of feminine ageing from temporal, spatial and corporel points of view elucidates the evolution of gender conceptions and how they are affected by the ageing process.

Immigration, Algerian Grandparents and Memory : Between Transmission and Forgetting
Interviews with grandparents of Algerian origin living in France show the ambivalence regarding memory and its transmission to grandchildren. Such phenomena are important in the study of migrations. The way grandparents attempt transmission varies in accordance with their family positions and their social status in the host country. The process also differs according to whether the grandparents came after their retirement, or go back and forth between their country of origin and the host country, or if they have a special status, comme the « Harkis », for example.